BTX on USB pen drive

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday 06 March 2008 07:29:40 pm Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Vincent Mialon wrote:
> > I tested various options in boot0cfg with no sucess. I also tested
> > the howto from
> > http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/04/13/installing-freebsd-on-u
> >sb-stick-episode-2 with a 6.3 FreeBSD release which boots on my pc but
> > doesn't boot on my supermicro server.
> >
> > Do you have any idea or pointer that may help me find the way to boot
> > this usb drive ? I may file a bug report if you want.
>
> I wanted to make a USB flash drive based installer for FreeBSD but
> unfortunately BTX seems to have issues that make it difficult to do
> reliably :(
>
> Here are 2 patches I tried..
> http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/realbtx
> http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/btx_crx.patch

Try this instead:

http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/btx_real.patch

(btx_crx has been in the base system for a while FWIW).  This is somewhat 
similar to kib's patch but fixes at least one bug I found in kib's patch (and 
uses some slightly different approaches in a few places).

-- 
John Baldwin